Conservative at the Core unpacks the history, rhetoric, and policies of the American conservative movement and probes the truth about what conservatism actually represents.Allan J. Lichtman investigates the foundations and history of conservative thought...

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to...

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume,...

In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of...

An entirely new translation of Nietzsche's fourth book, which falls in what is regarded as his middle 'positivist' period. Especially notable for the advance it represents in his understanding of psychology.

In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-François Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "figural" and representation, silence and libidinal energy.

Provides a report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, including facts that were exposed after the trial, and presents Arendt's commentary on the controversy created by the report.

In this English-language edition of the 1953 classic, Deleuze presents a challenging and controversial reading of David Hume's philosophy, comprehensive coverage of Hume's main texts and ideas, and a bold anticipation of the turn from postructuralism to...

Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault...

In this volume, complementary to Immanuel Wallerstein's "The Modern World-System", the author addresses theoretical questions raised in the analysis of the capitalist world-economy and reviews recent research which bears on these questions. He formulates...

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction. Translated from the French by Robert Hurley. First Vintage Books Edition. New York, Vintage Books, 1980. 11 x 18 cm. 168 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor...

Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1925, an early version of Being and Time (1927), offers a unique glimpse into the motivations that prompted the writing of this great philosopher's master work and the...

This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiles French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe...

This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds...

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.Kant's Critical Philosophy is an outstanding example of...

ROTH, M. S.: KNOWING AND HISTORY. APPROPRIATIONS OF HEGEL IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRANCE [HARDBACK]. ITHACA, NY, 1988, xv 264 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games,...